Raw cloud compute, or a server with a team.
Vultr is low-cost self-serve cloud compute with a global footprint, but the instance is yours to administer: no management, no proactive monitoring, no real uptime SLA on the VPS. RemarkableCloud is a dedicated fully managed VPS with a 500% SLA, backups and mail included, and a proactive team. Choose Vultr if you want raw compute and can run it yourself. Choose RemarkableCloud if you want the server managed.
SiteGround is a well-regarded managed shared hosting provider.
SiteGround is one of the better-known names in shared and managed WordPress hosting, with a strong reputation built on reliable performance, a polished custom control panel in Site Tools, good built-in caching, and genuinely responsive support. For a small site, a blog, or a brochure site, SiteGround is well-built shared hosting and a credible choice that many people are happy with.
The differences with RemarkableCloud are the type of product and how the price behaves. SiteGround's plans are shared hosting: your site runs alongside many others, and each plan is bounded by CPU-second limits and a monthly visit allowance, so a busy site can be throttled or pushed to upgrade. The headline price is also an introductory rate that renews substantially higher after the first term. SiteGround is good shared hosting. The question on this page is what changes when a growing site moves to a dedicated fully managed server with guaranteed resources, a 500% SLA, and one flat price that does not jump.
Premium shared hosting, or a server that is yours.
SiteGround is well-built managed shared hosting, but it is still shared hosting. RemarkableCloud is a dedicated fully managed server. Two differences matter most.
SiteGround plans are bounded by limits.
SiteGround's shared plans are capped by CPU-second limits and a monthly visit allowance. A busy site gets throttled or pushed to upgrade, and resources are shared with many other accounts.
RemarkableCloud gives you guaranteed resources.
A Cloud Cube is a dedicated server: your allocated CPU and RAM are guaranteed, never oversold, with no CPU-second cap and no visit limit. Your performance does not depend on anyone else's traffic.
SiteGround's price jumps at renewal.
The headline SiteGround price is an introductory rate. After the first term it renews substantially higher, so the real long-term cost is well above what the signup page shows.
RemarkableCloud is one flat price, 500% SLA.
The price you see is the price you keep, this term and next. 1 hour down equals 5 hours credited, automatically, with no claim to file. Daily snapshots and the mail gateway are included.
What you actually get for the same money.
SiteGround's plans look inexpensive on the signup page, but the headline is an introductory rate that renews substantially higher, and the plan is still shared hosting bounded by CPU-second limits and a monthly visit cap. RemarkableCloud's Shared CPU 8 GB Cloud Cube is $36 per month with annual billing, a dedicated fully managed server with guaranteed resources, the control panel, daily snapshots, free S3 backup storage, the mail gateway, and a 500% SLA all included. One flat all-in price that does not jump.
Shared resources · CPU-second limits · monthly visit cap
Well-built managed shared hosting. Resources are shared and capped, the visit allowance is metered, and the price renews higher after the intro term.
low at signup, renews substantially higher
- Shared hosting, resources not dedicated to you
- CPU-second limits throttle a busy site
- Monthly visit allowance, upgrade when you exceed it
- Intro price renews substantially higher
- No 500% SLA, no automatic downtime credits
Genuinely good shared hosting for a small site. But the limits are real, and the renewal price is the number that actually matters once the first term ends.
2 vCPU · 8 GB RAM · 100 GB NVMe · 20 TB transfer
A dedicated fully managed server with guaranteed resources, NVMe storage, every feature included, and a 500% SLA, at one flat price.
per month, annual billing, everything included
- Dedicated server, no CPU-second cap, no visit limit
- Genuinely fully managed by RC team, 24/7
- Daily snapshots plus 200 GB free S3 storage
- 500% SLA, automatic credits from minute one
- Free migration from SiteGround
4 vCPU · 16 GB RAM · 200 GB NVMe · 40 TB transfer
Dedicated CPU cores for teams that want headroom, with everything still included at one flat price.
per month, annual billing, everything included
- Dedicated CPU cores, never shared or throttled
- Daily snapshots plus 400 GB free S3 storage
- RemarkablePanel control panel included free
- 500% SLA, automatic credits from minute one
- Free migration from SiteGround
Performance, side by side.
Vultr runs capable cloud compute across a genuinely large global data center footprint, with a mature platform and good price-to-spec, a credible cloud provider. Every RemarkableCloud Cloud Cube runs on current-generation enterprise Intel and AMD processors at 3 GHz or higher, with 100% NVMe storage, dedicated resources, full root access, and a 50 Gbps DDoS-protected network on every plan, including the $8/month Basic tier.
Vultr infrastructure
Capable cloud compute, global footprint
Vultr runs capable cloud hardware across a genuinely large set of global data center locations. The infrastructure is solid and the footprint is one of Vultr's real advantages.
Self-serve, you are the sysadmin
Vultr gives you the instance and a control panel. OS patching, security hardening, monitoring, and incident response stay with you. The compute is capable, but running it is your job.
Backups are a paid add-on
Automatic backups on Vultr are an optional paid extra on top of the instance price. Without them, recovery from a bad deploy or a failure is entirely on you.
Network capacity varies by plan
Bandwidth and network throughput on Vultr's instances scale with the tier. There is no single high-capacity scrubbed network figure published as a flat baseline across every plan.
RemarkableCloud infrastructure
Current-generation enterprise CPUs at 3 GHz+
Every Cloud Cube runs on modern Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC server-grade processors at 3 GHz or higher. Consistent clock speeds, the same caliber of hardware used in demanding data center workloads, with no mixed-generation fleet.
100% NVMe on every plan, no premium tier
NVMe storage is included on every Cloud Cube, from the $8/month Basic 2 GB plan to the 128 GB Dedicated CPU tier. NVMe delivers 5 to 7× faster read and write speeds than standard SSD, benefiting WordPress database reads and any disk-heavy workload immediately.
50 Gbps DDoS-protected network, all plans
Every Cloud Cube plan runs on a 50 Gbps network with built-in DDoS scrubbing at the infrastructure level. Attack mitigation is on by default. No add-on, no premium tier, no separate firewall service to configure.
Non-oversold, allocation guaranteed
Cloud Cubes are never oversold. Your allocated CPU and RAM are consistently yours, never shared or throttled by neighboring tenant activity. No burst credits, no noisy-neighbor risk on any plan.
Vultr vs RemarkableCloud across 16 categories.
RemarkableCloud leads on 14 of 16 comparison categories. Vultr leads on 2: a genuinely large global data center footprint and a mature developer API and tooling. Every other row covers what changes when a self-serve cloud instance becomes a dedicated fully managed Cloud Cube.
| Feature | Vultr | RemarkableCloud |
|---|---|---|
| Server management | Self-serve instance, you are the sysadmin | Fully managed VPS by RC team, 24/7 RC wins |
| Proactive monitoring | Not included, you configure your own alerts | RC team monitors and resolves before customer impact RC wins |
| Incident response | Customer handles incidents and recovery | Handled by RC team, most issues fixed before user impact RC wins |
| OS and security patching | Customer responsibility at the OS level | Managed proactively by our team RC wins |
| Support scope | Covers the platform, not your OS or stack | 24/7 human support that manages your server RC wins |
| Uptime SLA | No real uptime SLA on standard instances | 500%, 1 hr down equals 5 hrs credited automatically from minute one RC wins |
| SLA credit process | No automatic credit mechanism | Automatic credits, no threshold, no claim to file RC wins |
| Backups | Optional paid add-on, not included | Daily snapshots plus free offsite S3 storage included RC wins |
| Mail gateway | Not included, configure SMTP yourself | MailChannels SMTP and Rspamd antispam included free RC wins |
| Storage type | SSD or NVMe depending on plan | 100% NVMe on every plan RC wins |
| Network speed | Scales with the instance tier | 50 Gbps DDoS-protected on every plan RC wins |
| DDoS protection | Available as a paid add-on | 50 Gbps network-level scrubbing, always on RC wins |
| Control panel | Cloud dashboard, no hosting control panel | RemarkablePanel included free RC wins |
| Free migration | Self-service, you move your own workload | Full server migration by RC team, free RC wins |
| Global data center footprint | Large set of worldwide locations | US infrastructure, focused footprint They win |
| Developer API and tooling | Mature API, broad self-serve tooling | Managed service, less self-serve tooling They win |
Pick your Cloud Cube.
The comparison above showed two specific Cloud Cubes against a Vultr cloud instance. Here is the complete RemarkableCloud lineup, from the 2 GB Basic tier at $8 per month with annual billing to the 128 GB Dedicated CPU tier. Every plan, regardless of size, includes the same dedicated fully managed server, daily snapshots with offsite S3 backup storage, MailChannels SMTP and Rspamd mail gateway, RemarkablePanel, and the 500% SLA. One flat all-in price, no separate sysadmin to hire, no backup add-ons, no SLA to go without.
- Fully Managed, server, mail, security
- Daily Snapshots & Remote Backups
- Free S3 Storage, 2x your NVMe disk
- Inbound & Outbound Mail Gateway
- 500% SLA Guarantee
- Fully Managed, server, mail, security
- Daily Snapshots & Remote Backups
- Free S3 Storage, 2x your NVMe disk
- Inbound & Outbound Mail Gateway
- 500% SLA Guarantee
- Fully Managed, server, mail, security
- Daily Snapshots & Remote Backups
- Free S3 Storage, 2x your NVMe disk
- Inbound & Outbound Mail Gateway
- 500% SLA Guarantee
- Fully Managed, server, mail, security
- Daily Snapshots & Remote Backups
- Free S3 Storage, 2x your NVMe disk
- Inbound & Outbound Mail Gateway
- 500% SLA Guarantee
- Fully Managed, server, mail, security
- Daily Snapshots & Remote Backups
- Free S3 Storage, 2x your NVMe disk
- Inbound & Outbound Mail Gateway
- 500% SLA Guarantee
- Fully Managed, server, mail, security
- Daily Snapshots & Remote Backups
- Free S3 Storage, 2x your NVMe disk
- Inbound & Outbound Mail Gateway
- 500% SLA Guarantee
- Fully Managed, server, mail, security
- Daily Snapshots & Remote Backups
- Free S3 Storage, 2x your NVMe disk
- Inbound & Outbound Mail Gateway
- 500% SLA Guarantee
- Fully Managed, server, mail, security
- Daily Snapshots & Remote Backups
- Free S3 Storage, 2x your NVMe disk
- Inbound & Outbound Mail Gateway
- 500% SLA Guarantee
- Fully Managed, server, mail, security
- Reserved CPU, no sharing or bursting
- Daily Snapshots & Remote Backups
- Free S3 Storage, 2x your NVMe disk
- 500% SLA Guarantee
- Fully Managed, server, mail, security
- Reserved CPU, no sharing or bursting
- Daily Snapshots & Remote Backups
- Free S3 Storage, 2x your NVMe disk
- 500% SLA Guarantee
- Fully Managed, server, mail, security
- Reserved CPU, no sharing or bursting
- Daily Snapshots & Remote Backups
- Free S3 Storage, 2x your NVMe disk
- 500% SLA Guarantee
- Fully Managed, server, mail, security
- Reserved CPU, no sharing or bursting
- Daily Snapshots & Remote Backups
- Free S3 Storage, 2x your NVMe disk
- 500% SLA Guarantee
- Fully Managed, server, mail, security
- High-Capacity NVMe, 2x per GiB RAM
- Daily Snapshots & Remote Backups
- Free S3 Storage, 2x your NVMe disk
- 500% SLA Guarantee
- Fully Managed, server, mail, security
- High-Capacity NVMe, 2x per GiB RAM
- Daily Snapshots & Remote Backups
- Free S3 Storage, 2x your NVMe disk
- 500% SLA Guarantee
- Fully Managed, server, mail, security
- High-Capacity NVMe, 2x per GiB RAM
- Daily Snapshots & Remote Backups
- Free S3 Storage, 2x your NVMe disk
- 500% SLA Guarantee
- Fully Managed, server, mail, security
- High-Capacity NVMe, 2x per GiB RAM
- Daily Snapshots & Remote Backups
- Free S3 Storage, 2x your NVMe disk
- 500% SLA Guarantee
Three steps to leave Vultr.
RemarkableCloud handles the full migration from any Vultr instance at no cost. Most migrations complete in 2 to 24 hours with no downtime planned. You stay on Vultr until we confirm the new server is verified and ready.
Order your Cloud Cube
Pick a Cloud Cube plan and complete the order. We provision the new server and send migration credentials within minutes. Your Vultr instance stays running and serving traffic. No reconfiguration on the Vultr side.
We migrate your full stack
Our team copies files, databases, mail accounts, DNS records, and SSL certificates from your Vultr instance to the new Cloud Cube. We test everything on a staging URL before cutover. You review and approve. No surprises, no rushed migrations.
Coordinated cutover, then go live
When you approve, we point your domain DNS to the Cloud Cube during a coordinated window. Final database sync, DNS propagation, post-migration verification, then you cancel the Vultr instance. You are fully live on RemarkableCloud.
Four reasons teams move from Vultr to RemarkableCloud.
Teams running production workloads on Vultr move to RemarkableCloud for four consistent reasons: they want the server managed instead of being the sysadmin, they want a real 500% SLA, they want backups, mail, and monitoring included, and they want one flat all-in price.
The server managed, not your second job.
Vultr gives you a fast, inexpensive instance, but its support covers the platform, not your OS or stack. Patching, monitoring, security, and incident response stay with you. On RemarkableCloud, our team runs the server around the clock and resolves issues before they reach your users, with no sysadmin work on your side.
A real 500% SLA, not a gamble.
Vultr's standard instances carry no meaningful uptime SLA. When something goes wrong there is no automatic compensation and no accountability. RemarkableCloud's 500% SLA credits 5 hours for every hour of downtime, automatically, from the first minute, with no threshold and no claim. The guarantee is real and it pays out.
Backups, mail, and monitoring included.
On a Vultr instance you assemble everything yourself: automatic backups are an optional paid add-on, there is no enterprise mail gateway, and monitoring is your own to configure. RemarkableCloud includes daily snapshots with free offsite S3 storage, the MailChannels SMTP relay with Rspamd antispam, and proactive monitoring, all on every Cloud Cube at one flat price.
One flat all-in price.
With Vultr, the instance price is a starting point: backups, DDoS protection, and other extras are billed on top, and a real sysadmin is a cost on its own. On RemarkableCloud, management, the control panel, daily backups, offsite S3 storage, the mail gateway, and the 500% SLA are all included on every Cloud Cube. The price you see is the bill you pay.
When Vultr is the right choice. When RemarkableCloud is.
Vultr is the wrong answer for some buyers and the right answer for others. Same for RemarkableCloud. The honest version of this page is which one matches the shape of your team and your workload. Here is the test.
Choose Vultr when
- You want low-cost raw cloud compute and price is the deciding factor.
- You have the skills to run a server yourself and want only the infrastructure.
- You need a data center in a specific worldwide location Vultr covers.
- You already have a sysadmin or DevOps function handling patching and monitoring.
- You are comfortable with no real uptime SLA on the standard instances.
- You rely on a mature self-serve API to spin instances up and down programmatically.
Choose RemarkableCloud when
- You want the server fully managed instead of becoming the sysadmin yourself.
- You want a real 500% SLA with automatic credits, not an instance with no SLA at all.
- You want daily backups, an enterprise mail gateway, and proactive monitoring included.
- You want NVMe storage and a 50 Gbps DDoS-protected network on every plan.
- You want one flat all-in price, with no backup or DDoS add-ons to price up.
- You want a team that handles incidents before they reach your users, around the clock.
RemarkableCloud vs Vultr, your questions answered.
Is a Vultr instance the same as fully managed hosting?
No. Vultr's cloud instances are self-serve infrastructure: you get the compute and a control panel, and Vultr's support covers the platform, not your operating system. OS patching, security hardening, monitoring, incident response, the firewall, and mail are all your responsibility once the instance is live. RemarkableCloud is genuinely fully managed: our team handles OS patching, security hardening, monitoring, incident response, firewall, mail gateway, and backups proactively, before issues reach you. The low Vultr price buys infrastructure, not a team to run it.
Does Vultr offer an uptime SLA on its instances?
Vultr's standard cloud instances do not carry a meaningful uptime SLA. If your server goes down, there is no automatic compensation and no contractual accountability on the standard compute line. RemarkableCloud's 500% SLA credits you automatically from minute one of any downtime: one hour down means five hours of service credited back to your account. There is no threshold to breach, no claim form to file, and no support ticket required. For a production workload, that difference matters.
Are backups included with Vultr?
Not by default. Automatic backups on Vultr are an optional paid add-on billed on top of the instance price, so without them, recovery from a bad deploy or a failure is entirely on you. RemarkableCloud includes daily snapshots with free offsite S3 backup storage, sized at twice the NVMe disk of the plan, on every Cloud Cube at no extra cost. A real recovery point is part of the service, not a line item you have to remember to enable.
Can I migrate from Vultr to RemarkableCloud for free?
Yes. RemarkableCloud includes free migration from Vultr on every Cloud Cube plan, with no engineering work required on your side. Our team copies your files, databases, mail accounts, DNS records, and SSL certificates from your Vultr instance to your new Cloud Cube, tests everything on a staging URL, then coordinates a cutover window with you. Most migrations complete in 2 to 24 hours with no planned downtime, and you stay on Vultr until we confirm the new server is verified.
Is Vultr a good choice if I want the cheapest compute?
On raw price per instance, Vultr is genuinely competitive, and if you have the skills to run a server yourself and want a specific worldwide location, it is a reasonable choice. RemarkableCloud is built for the opposite case: teams that would rather not run the server at all. Once you account for the cost of your own time spent on patching, monitoring, and incident response, or the cost of a sysadmin to do it, plus backups and DDoS protection as paid add-ons and the value of a real 500% SLA, RemarkableCloud's flat all-in price for a fully managed VPS is the lower total cost for most teams running anything that matters.